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The World Chess Championship 2014 was a match between the world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Viswanathan Anand, to determine the World Chess Champion. It was held from 7 to 25 November 2014, under the auspices of the World Chess Federation ( FIDE ) in Sochi , Russia .
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
World Chess Championship 2014; 41st Chess Olympiad; Women's World Chess Championship 2014; 2014 European Individual Chess Championship; FIDE Grand Prix 2014–15; FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–14; Norway Chess 2014; Shamkir Chess; Sinquefield Cup 2014; Zurich Chess Challenge 2014
Since 2012, FIDE has held the World Rapid and Blitz Championships at a joint tournament. The tournament was held in New York City , United States , from 30 to 31 December 2024. After three drawn tiebreak games in the finals of the Open section, Magnus Carlsen proposed and Ian Nepomniachtchi agreed to share first place.
FIDE and the PCA each held a championship cycle in 1993–1996, with many of the same challengers playing in both. Kasparov and Karpov both won their respective cycles. In the PCA cycle, Kasparov defeated Viswanathan Anand in the PCA World Chess Championship 1995. Karpov defeated Gata Kamsky in the final of the FIDE World Chess Championship 1996.
The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13: Veselin Topalov [3] 39 2785 4 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov: 28 2757 13 The next two highest rated players who played in the Chess World Cup 2013 or the FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13 (average FIDE rating on the 12 monthly lists from August 2012 to July 2013) [4] Levon Aronian: 31 2830 2 Sergey ...
The World Chess Championship 2024 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Ding Liren and the challenger Gukesh Dommaraju to determine the World Chess Champion. The match took place between 25 November and 12 December 2024 in Singapore. It was played to a best of 14 games, with tiebreaks if required. [1]
Wesley So scored 9/9 in the 2011 Inter-Provincial Chess Team Championship, with a performance rating of 3037, [65] [66] won the gold medal in men's blitz at the SEA Games 2011 at Indonesia with a score of 9/9 and a rating performance of 3183, [67] and won the 2013 Calgary International Blitz Championship with a score of 9/9.